Check-printing cash-register.



- No; 831,626. I

I. 0-. OSBORN. CHECK PRINTING CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED 00122, 1901.

3 SHEETS-SHEET l.

PATBNTE SEPT. 25, 1906.

PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906.

F.-G. OSBORN.

vCHECK PRINTING CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 22, 1901.

'3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

' PATENTED SEPT. 25,.1906.

F.G.0SBORN.

GHBGK PRINTING CASH REGISTER.

' rgmoulon FILED 00122, 1901.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

EUNH

FRANCIS O. OSBORN, OF DETROIT,

W STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHIGAN, ASSIGXOR. BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGlSTER, COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORJORATION OF OHIO, (l.\'(..Oltl:ORATED IN 1906.)

I CHECK PPlNTlNQ-i To all who iitit may concern; 1

Be it known that I, FRANCIS C. OSBORN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Printing Cash- Registers, of which I' declare the following to be-a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in cash-registers, and, as shown in the drawings, comprises a registering, indicating, and

- check-printing mechanism.

The object of my invention and the points of novelty will appear in the following specil wheel.

fication and particularly in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a view of the complete machine in front elevation,

partly in section.

each 0 eration of the machine. Fig. 7 is a front-e evation view of the indicator-disk.

Referring to the'drawings, the numeral 10 7' designates the fixed frame of the machine. ,It is generally .circular'as seen from the front,

but it'rests upon a base 11. Within'the case I the re istering and rinting mechanisms arev locate No cashrawer is shown, though, of course ,if desired, one could readily be femployed.

' Most-all of the mechanism is arran ed concentric to the central shaft 13.. (S own in Fig. 2.) Rising from the floor within the case 10 is a standard 14, It has a front arm 15 and a rear arm 16. The central shaft is 'journaled in a suitable bearing 17 'in the upper end of the standard. Rigidl secured\ u on the front end ofthe ce'ntra shaft is w @t mi ht be called a frame. It consists of t e socket 18, a rearwardly-extending arm 19, and above that the brackets 20,

in which are formed bearings which are pierced. to receive and support the key-shaft 21, which is curved and extends, preferably,

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed October 22, 1901. SerialNo. 79,551.

CASH REC-EISTER.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

concentric to the central shaft and upon which the keys are pivoted. The finger pieces 22 of the keys extend vertically upward through long slots formed in the case 10. Thus the keys are supportedupon a frame which is fast upon the front end of the central shaft 13. Secured upon the rear end of the latter is a gear 23, in mesh with a second gear 24, fast upon the'front end of a stubshaft 25, which is journaled in the rear arm of the standard. 14. Secured upon therear end of the stub-shaft is the large indicatordisk 26.

' It .will be readily understood from the construction just described that by swinging the keys to the. right or to theleft, as the case -may be, any desired indicating-numeral can be shown through the wicket 27 near the top of the case, because the indicator is geared directly to the shaft upon which the keys may be swung laterally.

The counter, which consists of a series of registering-wheels 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32, turns upon the counter-shaft 33, which is supported in bearings formed in the bifurcated upper ends of the rear standard-arm 16. There is nothing unusual about the counter. It i a provided with well-known means wherecomplete rotation its va ue is transferred to the adjacent wheel of next higher denomination. This transfer-mechanism is shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 and needs no specific description.

As the machine shown in the drawings is- -arranged toprint amounts of five cents and multiples thereof, the wheels of lowest denomination is the five-cent registering-wheel .by when one registerin '-wheel has made a 32. Secured to it upon its 11 ht-hand side is a pinion 34, through which t e registering movement'of the keys is transmitted to the counter. The registering-segment 35, which is pivoted upon the short transverse shaft 36, meshes at all times with-this pinion, a slip-pawl and ratchet 37 .being arranged to transmit to the counter the movement of the registering-segment in one direction, but not in the other. When the registering-Se ment is moved back to normal position y its spring 38, the counter therefore is not eflect- I ed thereby.

The keys, as stated, are all pivoted, preferably, concentric to the central shaft 13,

and each comprises besides the finger-pieces 22 a registering-arm 39, which extends toward the rear, the type 40, and astop-arm 21. There are a number of springs 42that is to say, one for each key-'which respectively connect said keys with the arm 19 The registering-arms 39 at their upper ends adjacent their juncture with the keys are all the same distance from the key-shaft 21 but the distance of their respective lower ends from the central shaft increases in direct proportion to their numerical value.

. Extending vertically downward from the lateral slot, through which the keys move collectivelyabout thei'central shaft as a pivot, is the vertical slot 43, and no key can be swung downward upon its key-shaft 21 unless it is in line with this slot. In the posi tion of the keys as shown in'Fig. 1 the ten-key is the only one that can be operated. An antifriction-roller 44 is secured in suitable hearings in the lower end of the registeringsegment 35 and lies at all times in the vertical plane of the key that is in position to enter the vertic ll slot. From this it results that when the key isoperated its graduated registering-arm 39 in swingingforward strikes the antifriction-roller, and thereby swings the registering-segment 35 upward and turns the registering-wheel to record the amount of the operated key, as will be readil understood. Of course the indication is ma e just as soon as the keys are moved about the central shaft 13, so as to bring the key whose denomination it is desired to register in line with the operating-slot 43. Therefore the amount is indicated before it is registered; but if this were objectionable for any reason it would be very easy to provide a shutter, so as to close the wicket 27 until the registering movement was complete-that is to say, until the key had. been entirely operated. Shutters of this kind are very well known in the art, and I have not thought it necessary to describe one in connection with my invention.

The full-stroke device to compel the o e erated key to be swung the full length of t e operating-slot comprises a slide 45, which is.

vertically movable in slideways 46, Figs. 2 and 6, formed, preferably, integral with the standard 14, being connected therewith by the horizontal arm 47. There is a transversely-extending cross-piece 48, secured to the bottom of the slide 45, which forms a stop to limit the upward movement of said slide. Springs 49, Fig. 6, conncctthe ends of the cross-piece with the fixed slideways 46. The springs therefore tend always to return the full-stroke slide 45 to normal position whenever it is'displaced thcrefrom. It is provided with a series of fine ratchet-teeth 50, which cooperate with the full-strokc pawl 51 which is pivoted to a fixed part of the standard-frame. It results from this construction that whenever the full-stroke slide isstarted "sition to be struck and swung downward by the operation of a key it must complete the downward stroke before it can be moved upward, and in like manner it must complete its upward stroke. At its upper end the full-stroke slide carries an antifriction-roller which lies directly under the operating-slot 43, and is therefore always in podownward by the operate "'key. The stop-arm 41 of the operated key strikes the full-stroke slide and slides it downward, and the shape of the stoparm is such, as will be readily understood, that the key can only move upward or down ward with the full-stroke device. The arm 41 also acts to stop the operated key and prevent its swinging too far backward under the impulse of its spring 42.

I have provided my improved cash-register also with printing devices. sist principally of the type 40, one of which is carried by each key and arranged to print upon a card which is moved into its path the numerical value of the operated keys. The type are inked by an ink-roller 52 upon the lower end of an arm 53, which is hinged to a bracket 54, secured to the main frame of the machine. When a key swings downward through the operating-slot, its type strikes the ink-roller in such manner as to cause it to roll over the type-face and then swing inward into the recess 55, which for this purpose is formed in each key just below the type. When the key is returned to normal position, the spring 56 swings the ink-roller outward to its normal position.

Paper checks or tickets are presented in the path of the type of an operated key through the instrumentality of a cylindrical carrier, which is j ournaled in the front of the machine upon a horizontal journal 57, which is supported upon the front arm 15 of the standard. The carrier consists of a drum comprising a rear circular wall 58 and the cylindrical periphery 59. The latter has a series of ticket-feeding teeth 60, which proj ect inward. (See Fig. '1.) The teeth are distant from each other a little more than the length of one of the tickets 61. Concentric with the periphery of the drum is a curved flange 62, which extends from the foot of the inclined ticket magazine 63, around and just beyond the bottomof the operating-slot 43. The space between the flange 62 and the inner wall of the periphery 59 of the drum is just sufficient to accommodate the thickness of one of the paper tickets. The drum, with its feeding-teeth, is turned a distance equal to the length of a ticket at each operation of the key. The feed-teeth are of such nature that as they pass the foot of the ticket-magazine each one removes the bottom ticket and These conslides it upward in the space between the curved flange 62 and the periphery 59 of the drum. In this manner a blank ticket is moved 'into the path of the type of the oper- .teeth 60..

arranged 1n a circle concentric with the axis ated key just'before that .key' reaches the. lowermost point of its stroke.

The result is that the type on the operated key strikes the ticket and prints thereon its numerical value.

They drum is fed at each operation of the key a distance equal to the length of a ticket by the mechanism shown in Fig. 6. It consists of a series of triangular projections in number equal to the number of feeding- The triangular projections are of rotation of the drum. Cooperating with the triangular projections are two driving projections 66, which are formed upon and move with the full-stroke slide 45. These arearranged, as shown in Fig; 6, above and slightly to one side of each other. The opposingfaces of the driving projections are inclined in opposite directions, as shown. It results frornthis construction that when a key is swung downward through the operating-slot the lower driving projection is moved downward below the triangular projection 65 and the upper driving projection in moving downward strikes the upper edge of the triangularprojection and turns the drum to the left a distance equal to one-half the distance between two of the feeding-teeth '60. At this point the printed impression is made. Then as the key and the full-stroke slide move upward the drum isreleased by the upper driving projection and the inclined face of the lower one then strikes the next adjacent triangular projection and again the drum is turned to the left the same distance as before. In this manner at each operation of the key the drum is turned to the left a distance equal to the length of a ticket.

When a ticket has been printed upon, i

passes to the upper end of the flange 62, from which it may be readily removed by the op 'erator.

In the rear side of the rear arm 16 of the standard thereis arecess which. operates a spring-pressed aliningplunger 69. This cooperates with a series of alining holes70,; formed in the indicator disk ordial, whereby if, when the, machine is operated, the indicater should stop, so that its numerals are slightly out of alinement with the wicket 27 of the case, the round-pointed alining lunger '69 will force itself intothe alining-s oulder bination with a series of 1ndependently-mov-- able ty -carri ers, of a ticket-magazine for containing individual tickets, and means operated upon the movement o'f anyone of said type-carriers to advanceuthe tickets; in said magazine andbring a new. ticket to printing position- 1 table member to permit any one o 2. In a ticket-printing machine, the com bination with a series of independently-movable type-carriers, of a ticket-magazine for containing individual tickets normally out of printing position, and means operated upon the movement of any one of said type-carriers for successively conveying tickets from said magazine to the printingoint.

3. Ida ticket-printing macfiine, the combination with a rotatable member carrying a series of individual manipulative printing devices any one of which may be brought to a common printing-point, of a ticket-magazine for containing individual tickets, and means operated upon the movement of any one of said manipulative printing devices for advancing the tickets in said magazine and bring a new ticket to a common printingpoint.

4. In aticket-printing machine, the combination with a rotatable member carrying a series of' pivoted type-bars, of individual ticket-feeding devices operated by the ivotal movement of any one of said type-ars to bring a new ticket to printing position.

5. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with a series of independently-movable. type-carriers, of a magazine for containing individual tickets in stack formation, a movable member for conveying tickets from said magazine to printing position, and means controlled by said type-carriers for operating said movable-members to bring a succession'of tickets to printing position.

. 6. In a ticket-printing machine, the com- IOC bination with a series of individual manipulative printing devices. mounted u on a rota:

f said printingdevices to be brought to printing posi tion, of a ticket magazine for containing individual tickets arranged in stack formation, a revoluble member having provisions for conveying individual. tickets from said magazine to a printing position, and meanscontrolled by said individual printing devices for operating said revoluble member to bring a succession of tickets to printing position.

7. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with a series of pivoted type-bars movable to a commonjprintingoint,'0f a ticket-feeding device arranged to e actuated by the type-bar brought to said printingpoint.

' 8. In a ticket-printing machine, the .-com'-. bination with a series of independently-movable type-carriers, of a ticket-magazine for containing individual tickets,- and means positively actuatedtbya-n one ofsai'd type' carriers for advancing t "e tickets in said 7 magazine to bring a newticket to:printing positionr 9. In a,ticket-printing machine, the coinbinationwithafseries of lndependently-movable ty e-carrier s, of a magazine for contain.

ing individual tickets in stack-formation, 9.513

movable member for conveying tickets from said magazine to printing position, and means controlled by said type-carriers for posit vely moving said movable member to bring a succession of tickets to printing position.

10. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with a series of "eciprocatoryand independently-moval)le type-carriers, of a magazine for containing individual tickets in stack formation, a movable memberfor conveying tickets from said magazine to printing position, and means controlled by said ty e-carriers for positively moving said movab e member upon each direction of reciprocation of said type-carriers to bring a succession of tickets to printing position.

11. In a ticket-printingmachine, the combination with a series of keys arranged to have collective lateral movements, and individual vertical movements, ofmeans for successively bringing the tickets to the printingpoint of said keys.

12. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with a series of printing-keys ar ranged to be brought to a common printingpoint, of a rotary ticket-carrier automatically operated by said keys for presenting tickets successively atthe common printingpoint.

13. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with a series of printing-keys, of a slide operated by any one of said keys, a rotary ticket-carrier, and means intermediate the ticket-carrier and slide for advancing said carrier one step upon each reciprocation of the slide.

H. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with a series of independently-movable type-carriers, of a ticket-magazine for containing individual tickets, a movable member actuated by any one of said typecarriers during its printing movement and having full-stroke provisions to compel the complete movement of the operated typecarrier, and means connected with said movable lull-strokc member for advancing the tickets in said magazine to bring a new ticket to printing position.

15. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with-a series of independently-movable type-carriers, of a ticket-magazine for containing individual tickets arranged in stack formation, a revoluble member for conveying individual tickets from said magazine to printing position, a movable member actuated by any one of said type-carriers during its printing movement and having tullstrcke provisions to compel the complete movement of the operated iypecarrier, and means connected with said movable lullstroke. member for operating said revoluble member to convey the individual tickets to printing position.

16. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of printing-keys having lateral and vertical movements, of a common fullstroke device for said keys, arranged to cooperate'with the key in printing position.

; 17. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with a series of independently-movable type-carrying keys, of a movable frame carrying said keys to permit any one of the same to be moved to a common printingpoint, a ticket-conveyer formed with operating projections, an operating-slide moved by any one of said keys in its printing movement, and a projection formed on said slide for engaging the operating projections of said conveyer and actuate the conveyer to bring a succession of tickets to the printing-point.

18. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys provided each with a printing-type arranged whenever a key is operated, to make a printed impression at the. printing-point, a ticket-magazine, and means operated by the keys to deliver a ticket from said magazine to the printing-point at each operation of the machine.

19. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys, means arranged to print the value of an operated key at the printingpoint, a ticket-magazine, and means actuated by the operation of the keys for delivering a ticket from the magazine to the printingpoint whenever the machine is operated.

20. In a cash-register, t 1e combination with a series of keys, means for operating the keys so as to print the value of each operated key at the printing-point, a ticket-magazine, a conveyer arranged to carry the tickets from the magazine to the printing-point, and means operated by the keys respectively for actuating the conveyer.

21. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys, printing means whereby each key when operated will cause its numerical value to be printed at the printingpoint, a ticket-magazine, a conveyer arranged to receive tickets from the magazine and deliver them in position to receive a printed impression from the operated keys, and means controlled by the respective keys for actuating the conveyer.

22. In a cash-register, the combination with a central shaft, a frame carried thereby, keys pivoted concentric to the central shaft and arranged tobel swung on said shaft into printing position, type controlled by the keys, a ticket-magazine, and a conveyer which is actuated by the operation of the keys to bring a ticket from the magazine into printing position whenever a key is operated.

IIO

23. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with a series of independently-movable type-carriers mounted upon a movable member to permit any one of said type-carriers to be moved to a common printingpoint, of an inking device actuated by the printing movement of the operated type-v carrier to ink the latter prior to its printing impression.

24. In a ticket-printing machine, the combination with a series of independently-mov-- ranged to be operated by any one of the-keys I which is brought to the printing position.

26. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of printing-keys having lateral and vertical movements and provided with cam-arms, of a counter and a counter-operating rack which is actuated by the cam-arm of thekey which is brought to printing position.

27. In a cash-register, the combination with a counter, of a regis'teringrack or segment, a central shaft, a frame turning thereon, a series of keysv pivoted upon theframe whereby the keys may be-collectively adjusted about the central shaft so as to bring the desired key into operative'relation with l the registering-segment, and means whereby the individual operation of any key will actuate the registering-segment.

28. In a cash-register, the combination with a central shaft, and a frame journaled thereon, of a key-shaft supported by the frame, a series of keys mounted on the key shaft whereby the keys have a collective movement about the centralshaft and an individual movement upon the key-shaft, a counter, a registering-segment arranged-to actuate the counter, and graduated registering means controlled by the res ective keys whereby the keys may be move collectively to bring the desired one into operative relation with the registering-segment, and then individually so as to register its value on the counter.

29. In a cash-register, the combination with a counter, andregistering-segment of a central shaft, a frame supported thereby, a

series of keys pivoted upon the frame in a plane at right angles to the direction of the central shaft, whereby the keys may be moved in one direction collectively so as to bring the desired key into operative relation with the registering-segment, and in a direction at right angles thereto so as to actuate the counter, a rotary indicator, and connections between said indicator and the central shaft substantially as described. Y

30. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of printing-keys having lateral and vertical movements, of an indicator set by the lateral movements of the keys, a counter and counter-operating devices actuated by the vertical movements of the keys. i

31. In a cash-register, the combination with a suitable support, of a frame pivoted thereon, a series of keys pivoted in the frame,

.an indicator set by the ivotal movement of the frame, a counter an a counter-operating device actuated by the-pivotal movement of the keys.

32. In a ticket-printing machine, the com-- bination with a series of independently-mow able type-carriers, of a ticket-magazine for containing individual tickets, and ticket-- issuing means controlled by the movement of any one of said type-carriers to issue the printed ticket from the magazine.

33. In a ticket-printin machine, the combination with printing evices, of a ticketmagazine, a movable ticket-conveyer having rovisions for extracting tickets successively fiomsaid magazine to carry a succession of tickets toward printing position, and a latform for supporting said succession of tic ets said latform extending only to such position relatively to the printingoint that further feeding movement to the ast printed ticket will move the latter beyond sa1d platform.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

4 FRANCIS O. OSBORN. Witnesses? S. E. THOMAS, FRANK A. 

